Are you amongst the “Sandwich Generation”? By that, I mean people who are both raising a family and also caring for an aging parent.
If so, I expect that you’re under a great deal of anxiety from the multitude of competing demands placed upon you all the time by your loved ones - and [...]
The fear of flying is one fear that almost everyone who has flown has experienced to some degree.For a large number, it is no more than an annoyance; perhaps disagreeable but nothing too troubling.
Others, however, experience physical and mental symptoms that can range from simply “tense” to “outright panic”.There are a number of useful treatments [...]
People’s lives have gotten hectic by the second. People are not only doing more and more than ever before, they are also doing more in a shorter amount of time. This disturbing phenomenon has led to a striking rise of stress-related problems, but an even more worrying situation is the lack of proper stress management. A lot [...]
Reported cases of stress-related problems in the workplace are increasing in number, most probably due to the current economic recession sweeping the world today. Employers are forced to make tougher decisions than they normally do while workers are faced with job uncertainy. With these new factors in mind, it’s easy to see how managing stress [...]
The credit crunch has hit us all financially over the last few months, and now it is beginning to affect both our physical and mental health as well. Doctors are noticing a significant increase in patients complaining of stress related health problems since the recession hit, as people find themselves with more and more troubles [...]
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Stress is a part of our lives and trying to relax has become a way of living, as opposed to an option. The health factors involved with stress make finding ways to ease tension very important, and while managing stress is important, realizing that we’re a stressed society because of too many stress-causing factors in [...]
If you suffer from an anxiety disorder, you will be very mindful of the consuming sensation of suddenly feeling confused, cornered or perhaps sick to your stomach all simultaneously. Anxiety panic attacks are common among sufferers of several anxiety disorders. If you are one of these people, then you recognize only too well how out [...]
Stress is part of life. There’s just no escaping it. There are good forms of stress and bad forms, but it’s always with us in one way or another.
Fight-or-flight response, also known as acute stress, is an anxiety disorder. When we experience either a real or perceived threat to us, it kicks in. The [...]
Since the early eighties stress has been very much in the news as a health epidemic and this situation is continuing to worsen as an increasing number of workers report that they are increasingly suffering stress at work. Indeed the workplace now provides the leading environment for stress in American adults. However stress levels have [...]
